UN owes India USD 85 million for contribution towards peacekeeping
United Nations: UN owes India an amount of USD 85 million for its contribution towards peacekeeping operations including troops, police and equipment, a senior management official has said.
The organization owed a total of USD 1.03 billion to 86 Member States which contributed troops, police and equipment as of October 2 this year.
The largest amount owed was to Pakistan of USD 97 million, followed by Ethiopia of USD 87 million, India of USD 85 million, Bangladesh of USD 84 million, Rwanda of USD 55 million, and Nepal of USD 44 million, Under Secretary General for Management Yukio Takasu told the the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) in the General Assembly yesterday.
India is the largest cumulative troop contributor to UN peace operations, with over 185,000 troops having served in 48 of the 69 missions mandated so far.
The country has repeatedly called for the Security Council to consult troop contributing countries before drawing up peacekeeping mandates given that troops now have to function is increasingly difficult and hostile conflict situations across the world’s hot-spots.
He said the organization’s financial indicators for 2015 were ‘generally sound and positive’, except for the cash position of the regular budget, whose funds had been depleted.
